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*       File-Name:      README                                          * 
*       Date:           April 8, 2019                                   * 
*       Author:         Bowler, Gschwend, Indridason                    * 
*       Purpose:      	 Coalition Policy Perceptions                    * 
* 	                Accepted, Journal of Politics                   * 
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This README file provides information for replicating our analysis for:

Shaun Bowler, Thomas Gschwend, & Indridi Indridason. "Coalition Policy Perceptions" Journal of Politics. Forthcoming.		


(1) Place all the replication material in the same folder.

(2) Run - master.do - to replicate our analysis in Stata. The master do-file will call successively further do-files to prepare the analysis in three countries, estimates all the models and produces all the graphs used in the paper above.


The replication material consist of the following files:

- ZA5305_en_v5-0-0.dta (German data)
- ZA5859_en_v2-0-1.dt (Austria data)
- w2_w5_w6_w7_CampaignSweden.dta (Sweden data)

- recode.do (Performs basic recoding and analysis of German data)
- sim_new_csk_i.do (generates figure 4 for CS coalition)
- sim_new_cfk_i.do (generates figure 4 for CF coalition)
- sim_new_csk_ib.do (generates figure A1 in Appendix for CS coalition)
- sim_new_cfk_ib.do (generates figure A1 in Appendix for CF coalition)
- sim_know_csk_margin.do (generates figure A2 & A4 in Appendix for CS coalition)
- sim_know_cfk_margin.do (generates figure A2 & A4 in Appendix for CF coalition)
- sim_know_csk_margin_banz.do (generates figure A3 & A5 in Appendix for CS coalition)
- sim_know_cfk_margin_banz.do (generates figure A3 & A5 in Appendix for CF coalition)


- austria.do (Performs basic recoding and analysis of Austria data)
- sweden.do (Performs basic recoding and analysis of Sweden data)
- description.do (Compiles data from all three studies and generates overview tables for APPENDIX)



